District police boss faints in office, dies in hospital

Kiruhura District police commander, Pascal Asiimwe has died after fainting in office.
Asiimwe, 58, is said to have died at Mbarara regional referral hospital where he had been admitted on Thursday.

Rwizi region police spokesperson, Samson Kasasira told this reporter that Asiimwe has been suffering from ulcers which attacked him on Wednesday and he got medication from a nearby clinic before going home.
“When he returned to work on Thursday morning, he looked weak. He became too ill at about 10:30am before fainting. He was vomiting blood and was rushed to Rushere community hospital in Kiruhura District,” Mr Kasasira said.

While at Rushere community hospital, the doctors at the facility referred him to Mulago national referral hospital but one of the doctors told the police officer Omar Ambrose who was helping the deceased to take him to the nearest referral hospital. A police ambulance from Mbarara was called to take him to Mbarara regional referral hospital where he died at about 6:40pm.

Mr Asiimwe was deployed at Kiruhuru police station in 2016 as the officer in charge. At the time, he was the Assistant Superintendent of Police. He later replaced Superintendent of Police Benson Byaruhanga Mworozi as the DPC after the latter went for a training course at Bwebajja in September 2017.

According to the postmortem report from Mbarara regional Referral hospital, the deceased had swellings around his large intestines which raptured causing intensive bleeding in the stomach.
Asiimwe is survived by eight children and one wife, Edith Asiimwe. The body will be taken to Kiruhura for prayers before being transported to his ancestral home in Masindi District for burial on Saturday.